A slightly different episode than normal for the podcast. Stuart chats to Mike MacDonald about the topic of self-delusion and cognitive bias and what personal trainers can learn from this.

Time Stamps 5.30 - Introducing the topic of self-delusion. 6.10 - Why Mike has become so interested in this topic. 10.30 - Confirmation bias. 16 - Getting round confirmation bias. 19.10 - Dunning Kruger effect 23 - the backfire effect 34.30 - post hoc fallacy 39 - confabulation Resources Mentioned Why we know what isn't so - Thomas Gilivich Think - Michael LeGault Why we make mistakes - Joseph.T Halinan You're not so smart - David Mcraney